Police officers established a roadside checkpoint on the 14th street northwest on August 13, 2025 in Washington (photo Tasos Catopodis/Getty Images)
Washington-local leaders and supporters on Thursday said that the decision of President Donald Trump about taking over a district of 3400 police members in Colombia and the deployment of 800 members of the National Guard is a continuation of the immigration repression of administration.
From the president Decision on Monday To refer to the act on the district rule, the control points are set in busy districts, bulldozers remove tents of people experiencing homelessness, and republican governors report on volunteering to strengthen the federalization of the president of 68 square miles.
Films of masked law enforcement officers that make the Washington out of cars and arrests were carried out, were published on social media by journalistsDrawing concerns about civil liberties.
While Trump’s control over the district police ends within 28 days, it signals that he wants Congress to expand his authority to stop the “crisis”.
Supporters questioned the situation. “It seems that there is evidence that the federal authorities (Metropolitan Police) may have exceeded the laws in accordance with some of these stops of movement … and there is responsibility if the law is violated,” said Eisen standards, chairman of the Democracy Defense Fund, a court organization, which questioned many Trump administration activities, in a call for reporters.
Trump predicts the enforcement “throughout the country”
Control points attracted the reaction of the residents of the district and local elected leaders.
In a statement, a member of the District Council Brianne Nadeau criticized the enforcement of immigration law at control points.
“Yesterday evening it would be a routine MPD traffic safety operation, it was appointed by federal law enforcement agencies,” she said. “Agents who are not trained in the field of DC Law. Agents who do not know our community. Agents who did not try to solve traffic safety, but rather interrogated drivers regarding immigration status.”
On Thursday, Trump said that law enforcement agencies using control points as enforcement of immigration law were a “great step”.
“I think this will happen in the whole country,” the president told reporters in the White House after signing the proclamation Celebrating the 90th birthday of social insurance. “We want to stop the crime.”
According to the Department of Justice, the historical 30-year lowest levels have brutal crime in the district.
Eisen called control points unlawful.
“They use it as a control point of immigration,” he said. “It’s illegal.”
Buldozing camps for homeless people
Homeless camps in the entire district are also cleaned as part of the President’s Directive.
Trump Wednesday signaled that he was planning to send a request to the Congress with a “relatively small amount” to introduce improvements to the district.
The press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that if people who experience homelessness do not agree to shelter, they could face bangs or prison.
“The problem of homelessness has devastated the city,” said Leavitt. “Homeless people will have the opportunity to leave the camp, take to a shelter for the homeless, offering addiction or mental health services, and if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or prison.”
The district stood in the face of arrears in capturing coupons for people experiencing homelessness, According to Street Sense MediaInformation point that focuses on reporting homelessness in the district.
Local police in order to lend a hand the Federts in immigration activities
Police head in the district on Thursday issued a novel executive order Enabling the local police to lend a hand federal officials in enforcing immigration law for immigrants not in police detention.
The novel order does not change the law of the District, which prohibits the local police sharing information with federal immigration officials about people in police detention. This is a policy for which Trump criticized the city, calling it a “city of the sanctuary”, but politics does not prohibit the enforcement of immigration law.
Trump called the Thursday executive ordinance “a very positive thing”, especially at control points in the district.
“When they stop people, they think they are illegal, report them, give us them,” he said.
From the time the office was taken for the second term, the president has linked military involvement in the enforcement of immigration law, such as sending thousands of soldiers to the southern border and the distribution of thousands of members of the National Guard to Los Angeles after protests caused by the dissemination of the immigration of Trump’s administration.
More moves of the National Guard
In addition, the Trump administration assesses the plans to establish the “domestic force of the quick reaction of civilian interference” consisting of 600 members of the National Guard to stay in the position to quickly distribute in every American city subjected to protests or other civil anxiety within an hour, According to documents obtained by Washington Post.
On Wednesday, in the next novel accent, the Republican Governor of Tennessee Bill Lee said It is prepared to send members of the National Guard to the district. Lee added that the Secretary of the American Army Daniel Driscoll told him that the army could turn to the countries of sent soldiers to the district for law enforcement agencies.
The POSSE Comitatus Act of 1878 basically charges the employ of the army for national law enforcement.
While the president stated that he also wanted to send members of the National Guard to other cities-Baltimore, Chicago, New York and Oakland-very democratic cities run by Black Mayors, as he did with the district, it cannot be reproduced, said Abbe Lowell, an outstanding defense lawyer.
“One thing that people must remember about their assault at the Colombia district, this is a very unique legal framework because of the home act, which gives him a certain ability to do something that is not in other states and cities where governors still have some or basic control over things such as the National Guard,” said Lowell, who was with Eisen at call with reporters.
This week, a trial is underway in which he questions Trump’s move to federalizing members of the National Guard California in a lawsuit submitted by the democratic Gavin Newsoma governor, After the Court of Appeal temporarily maintained Trump’s movement.
“Racial subtenses” cited by the mayor of Baltimore
Mayor Baltimore Brandon M. Scott said that Trump stands out from these cities, including a district, cannot be ignored.
“Every city he called had a black mayor, and we are talking about cities run by Black,” he said about calling from Eisen and Lowell. “We cannot overestimate the racial tons here.”
Scott also criticized Trump’s administration for drawing federal law enforcement officers – drug enforcement agency, investigations on internal security, FBI, customs and border patrol – from their duties. Instead, “patrols neighbors from Washington, stopping residents and check cars instead of doing actual work,” said Scott.
“If the president really wants to help these cities in reducing violence and crime, he could return to sending agents to their actual agencies and help us work on weapon trade, work on violent drug organizations and does not take these agents to work on this immigration brigade in which he had them,” said Scott.
He added that he works closely with Maryland with a democratic Gov. Wesem Moorem and “we will be prepared to take all other actions that we must take.”
Moore, who served in the American army, criticized the president for calling the National Guard to the district and raised fear that service members did not have the same training as policemen.
Trump rejected these fears on Thursday.
“They are trained in common sense,” said the president about the members of the National Guard.
Crisis situations
Eisen said that Trump’s actions in the district are part of the pattern of the president referring to “non -visualizations”.
On the day of the inauguration, Trump announced a national accident on the border, despite the low level of immigration.
In March he cited the Act on the enemies of aliens of 1798, war law used only three times earlier.
Trump’s decision to announce the “crisis” in the district at the beginning of this week after the former government department in the USA or Doge, the official was injured in An attempt to incident with theft Around 3 am East near the Logan Circle district. Two teenagers from Maryland were arrested on charges of unarmed theft in connection with the incident.
“Well, what he does in the Colombia district, including the illegal movement of movement, what he does is a song with this dictatorial approach,” Eisen said about the president.
